Polyglot Dictionary

lieb

/liːp/

adjective A2

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

Adj Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Positive

Meaning

  1. kind, sweet, dear

    The root behind lieben (to love) and Liebe (love) — a mild, everyday word for someone being nice, not as strong as lieben itself.

    • Das ist sehr lieb von dir.

      That's very sweet of you.

Similar words

sanft

Close synonyms for "kind, gentle."

Similar in other languages

Spanish

apacible

Close — kind, sweet relates to gentle, peaceful (apacible).

English

gracious

Close — kind, sweet relates to gracious.

English

gentle

lieb describes someone kind and dear, overlapping with gentle's sense of being soft-hearted and mild in manner.

Practice

1 What does lieb mean?

2 Fill the gap: Das ist sehr ___ von dir.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches lieb?

See also

adjectivecore-vocabularyemotion

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